Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe
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'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often...
Letters from the Trenches: The First World War by Those Who Were There
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A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and...
Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
Jim Obergefell and Debbie Cenziper
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Twenty-one years ago when Jim Obergefell walked into a bar in Cincinnatti and sat down next to John...
Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
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Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, is "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist...
Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story - How a Single Man Saved the World's Largest Satellite Constellation from Fiery Destruction
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American company, made a huge gamble on a revolutionary...
Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing
Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid
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This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from...
Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe
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This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern...
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
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Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine...
Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age
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Vincent J. Pitts chronicles the life and times of one of France's most remarkable kings in the first...
Isaac Newton: Pocket Giants
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Isaac Newton had an extraordinary idea. He believed the physical universe and everything in it could...